Mother gets 17 years in prison for newborn death

Published 11:17 pm, Tuesday, January 5, 2010

STAMFORD -- A 26-year-old city woman who pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of her newborn son was sentenced to 17 years in prison Tuesday in state Superior Court in Stamford.

Angelina Sarmiento will face deportation back to Honduras after completing her sentence for the killing, which occurred Oct. 29, 2008. Sarmiento was accused of wrapping her newborn son in a plastic bag and stabbing him before leaving his body in a trash bin.